[GRLUG] Laptop battery life

[Bob Kline]

An acquaintance with a laptop
running Apple's OS X has noticed
that Firefox consumes a lot more
power just sitting there than Safari,
the default browser,  does.

A power monitoring program shows
that other fluff running in the background
also chews up a lot of power - this
measured in terms of the percentage of
CPU use.  And the one that chews up the
most is the power monitoring program,
but that's OK while one is figuring out
what is going on.

Anyway,  has anyone noticed anything
similar about Firefox under Linux on a
laptop?   There's no particular reason
to think anything would be different,
but that's not proof.  In an environment
where battery life is at a premium,  one
plays the game of getting rid of everything
within reason that just sits and eats up
minutes of batter life.

The person with the OS X system says
that in the resting state Safari uses no
power.  Why might this be?  Do the
plugins, for example,  in Firefox typically
run in the background?

    -Bob
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